tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89449599199670590452024-03-06T01:40:05.406-05:00Floating World ProjectsFloating World Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04658881214575160826noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944959919967059045.post-47025450162481547192011-09-20T10:56:00.000-04:002011-09-20T10:56:13.761-04:00Invisible Cities Reception This Thursday!<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">FWP's current exhibition <i>Invisible Cities</i> will have an opening reception this Thursday, September 22 at the <a href="http://societyofcrafts.org/exhibit/current.asp">Society of Arts and Crafts</a> in Boston. It runs from 6-8 pm, with some of the artists in attendance. Please join us if you're in the area!</span></span><br />
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175 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116</span></span>Floating World Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04658881214575160826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944959919967059045.post-72373230441212897552011-08-09T12:55:00.000-04:002011-08-09T12:55:09.976-04:00"Invisible Cities" at The Society of Arts and Crafts<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Apologies for the lack of updates recently, but FWP has been busy preparing for <a href="http://societyofcrafts.org/exhibit/current.asp" target="blank">Invisible Cities</a>, our newest exhibition now showing at the <a href="http://societyofcrafts.org/" target="blank">Society of Arts and Crafts</a> in Boston! Screenprinted glass works created during FWP's recent MassArt residency will be on display, along with a short video and a few other pieces. The works are primarily inspired by the group's trip to NYC, incorporating photography of the city into collaged images on glass. <br />
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If you're in the Boston area come out to the show! SAC is located at 175 Newbury St (nearest to Copley T station) and open Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-6pm. The first floor hosts a lovely commercial gallery; <i>Invisible Cities</i> is on the second floor in the exhibition gallery. The opening event will be held September 22.<br />
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FWP artists took some finished screenprinted glass panels (with photos taken in New York this month) and bent them with heat into new shapes, stretching the printed imagery into more abstract forms. One panel shifted into a bowl, while two others were fused together into a boat shape. Pieces like these will be exhibited at SOAC in August.<br />
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Photos by FWP visiting artist <a href="http://aysebalyemez.blogspot.com/" target="blank">Ayse Balyemez</a>.<br />
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For the first few weeks of June, the Turkish artists involved in Floating World Projects have been staying in Boston for a residency at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design with James McLeod, Leo Tecosky, and Oben Abright. The group traveled to New York City and photographed graffiti and architecture around Brooklyn, and the resulting images are being used to screenprint collages over glass panels, similar to <a href="http://floatingworldprojects.blogspot.com/2010/11/preparing-for-exhihibition-in-san.html" target="blank">earlier pieces</a> incorporating photos of Istanbul. The finished pieces will be exhibited at the <a href="http://societyofcrafts.org/">Society of Arts and Crafts</a> in Boston.<br />
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Last week I (a person who has no experience with glass) visited the studio where Leo and James were working with MassArt students to produce glass shapes to be used for screenprinting. Below is a photo-diary of sorts of the process, from an outsider's point of view (meaning the vocabulary will remain simple!). <br />
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First, the artist takes a roll of compacted pigment at the end of the rod, and begins surrounding it with hot glass, continually twisting it as it hardens.<br />
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Several layers of hot glass are built up over time, with one person shielding the artist's face from sparks as he or she cradles the glass with wet cloth to shape it, and another person periodically blowing through the rod to expand the glass ball.<br />
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As it gets larger it is passed on to James and Leo, who continue to build it up until finally rolling it along a flat surface to give it a somewhat oval shape. <br />
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Then James stands at a greater height to lower it into a hot, hollow concrete tube, which shapes it into a flat-bottomed cylinder. <br />
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It is then chipped off the rod and stored in an incubator of sorts.<br />
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Watching glassmaking is exciting and fascinating, and I was impressed with just how much of a group effort it really is- with a range of different jobs and activities handled by the MassArt students/graduates working together.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">James McLeod gave a glassblowing demonstration during the opening event, experimenting with a hot silkscreen technique.</span></span><br />
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Next time there'll be a little photoshoot of the glassmaking process during FWP's artist residency at MassArt.</span></span>Floating World Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04658881214575160826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944959919967059045.post-73347271833797752002011-05-07T10:33:00.002-04:002011-05-07T10:33:47.541-04:00TRANSITLINES Opens Today!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_rUx2aAoeHcw/Tbcm5AjTX6I/AAAAAAAAAS4/V_9d6T6GE9M/s1000/publicglass-flier.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_rUx2aAoeHcw/Tbcm5AjTX6I/AAAAAAAAAS4/V_9d6T6GE9M/s400/publicglass-flier.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Floating World Projects' new exhibition "TRANSITLINES" opens today at the <a href="http://www.publicglass.org/" target="blank">Public Glass</a> gallery in San Francisco! It culls together a number of collaborative pieces made by Turkish and American artists, incorporating silkscreen techniques on glass panels. The work aims to comment on relations between our two cultures and blur the line between them. The exhibition is partly a fundraiser for FWP's documentary <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4UwAOnc63Y" target="blank">The Road to Hebron</a>, currently in the post-production process.<br />
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If you're in the area, check it out! The exhibit runs from May 7-May 23, with a special glassblowing demonstration and opening event tonight at 6pm. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The next major exhibition for Floating World Projects starts May 7th at the <a href="http://www.publicglass.org/" target="blank">Public Glass Gallery</a> in San Francisco. Titled <i>Transitlines</i>, it features several collaborative pieces from Floating World Projects artists. We'll have full details soon! <br />
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</span></span>Floating World Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04658881214575160826noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944959919967059045.post-22085161088105573982011-04-15T23:23:00.000-04:002011-04-15T23:23:11.192-04:00"Concepts in Glass" Exhibition at the Glass Quarterly Hot Sheet<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Here's a reminder that the <a href="http://floatingworldprojects.blogspot.com/2011/04/concepts-in-glass-exhibition.html">Concepts in Glass</a> exhibition at the New Art Center in Newton has started! It features art by FWP member James McLeod, along with other Boston-based glass artists. <a href="http://blog.glassquarterly.com/2011/04/15/opening-concepts-in-glass-featuring-massart-faculty-members/#more-8945">Check out the article posted at the Glass Quarterly Hot Sheet!</a></span></span>Floating World Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04658881214575160826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944959919967059045.post-25122910588599412102011-04-12T23:51:00.001-04:002011-04-12T23:51:52.313-04:00"Concepts in Glass" Exhibition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hN-D-SK-wM0/TaUc5Sz9S4I/AAAAAAAAARk/6XuDLFPnykg/s1600/-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hN-D-SK-wM0/TaUc5Sz9S4I/AAAAAAAAARk/6XuDLFPnykg/s400/-1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Starting Friday, April 11, the <a href="http://www.newartcenter.org/index.aspx" target="blank">New Art Center</a> in Newton, MA will open an exhibition titled "<a href="http://www.newartcenter.org/galleries/exhibit.aspx?id=36" target="blank">Concepts in Glass</a>" that features four Boston-based glass artists who push the medium into different directions with a conceptual bent to their compositions. FWP co-founder James McLeod has pieces in the show focusing on memories and how they shift and change, often becoming unreliable or faded. As curator Hillary Faccio observes, "He also addresses tension between seemingly soft materials and materials more aggressive in nature. He creates objects that illustrate tension, release, and balance."<br />
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Check it out if you're in the area! It runs April 11-May 15 in the Main Gallery at the New Art Center, Newton, MA.<br />
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<i>The Opening Reception will take place on Friday, April 15 from 6 to 8 pm. <br />
There will be a Gallery Talk with the curator and artists on Saturday, April 30 at 2 pm.<br />
All events are free and open to the public.</i><br />
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An overview of the conference, which takes place all over the Boston area, can be found <a href="http://transculturalexchange.org/conference_2011/overview.htm" target="blank">here</a> and the schedule is <a href="http://transculturalexchange.org/conference_2011/schedule.htm" target="blank">here</a>.<br />
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PS In case you missed it, Floating World Projects was featured in TCE's annual catalog "Here, There, and Everywhere" <a href="http://floatingworldprojects.blogspot.com/2011/02/transcultural-exchange-here-there-and.html">in February</a>!<br />
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If you're in the New York area, check out the exhibition at <a href="http://www.chashama.org/event/34" target="blank">Chashama</a>! Or you can get a preview of the auction items <a href="http://www.biddingforgood.com/auction/item/Browse.action?grouping=ALL&auctionId=124479721" target="blank">here</a>. The piece from Floating World Projects is titled "Beyoglu Series #3", composed of silkscreened enamel on glass (shown below).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Based in Boston, MA, the <a href="http://transculturalexchange.org/index2.html" target="blank">TransCultural Exchange</a> is a nonprofit committed to promoting artists and arts organizations with international focus. They sponsor exhibitions and educations programs all over, and publish annual catalogs collecting together some of the best artists and pieces.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This year, Floating World Projects was included in their catalog <a href="http://transculturalexchange.org/herethere/htecatalog02.htm" target="blank">Here, There and Everywhere: Anticipating the Art of the Future</a>, which compiles the works of collaborative groups working across borders and cultural divides. Art made by FWP artists for "Invisible Cities"- a major effort that combines glass sculpture, music, and video to be exhibited in 2011- is <a href="http://transculturalexchange.org/hte2011/people/people2/pages/page02.html" target="blank">featured</a>.<br />
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You can purchase the catalog <a href="http://transculturalexchange.org/herethere/htecatalog02.htm" target="blank">here</a> (bottom of page).<br />
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And you can keep up with happenings at the TransCultural Exchange through their <a href="http://transculturalexchange.blogspot.com/" target="blank">blog</a>.<br />
</span></span>Floating World Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04658881214575160826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944959919967059045.post-56357652913947175622011-02-07T16:31:00.001-05:002011-02-07T16:31:51.129-05:00FWP YouTube Channel<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Floating World Projects now has a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/FWProjects" target="blank">YouTube channel</a>, where you'll be able to see clips from our "Road to Hebron" documentary as well as music videos. Subscribe to keep updated on videos we're posting!<br />
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Below is a rough trailer for the film.<br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>MY BACKGROUND</b><br />
When I was 15 I attended a class of photography in high school, and I could insist my parents buy either buy a camera for me or I'd borrow my father's very old "Zorki 3C" Russian replica of "Leica III" from WWII at last.<br />
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very Saturday I was visiting flea markets in Istanbul where Russian goods were sold, like time-expired color slides, cheap negatives, darkroom equipment, and lenses. (At that time the U.S.S.R was resolved and they opened their borders for trade.) The materials were so cheap I had the opportunity to experiment with them, resulting in photos with poor quality, faded colors, and lots of production failures. I was so interested in shooting long exposures at night and developing black and white negatives by myself. There was no digital photography in those years so playing with that material was lots of fun. When I used old color materials I obtained old cinematographic tastes from different eras, when I used new material the result was so different. I observed how people reacted when they saw the same photo taken with different materials and techniques. I understood the power and expression of the photographic image so when I was 18 I decided to study photography at Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul.<br />
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It was not as fun as I expected- everything was so serious, disciplined and boring! I was good at technical photography but the artistic and documentary tasks we were asked to do had no sense of humor, they were all repetitive. So I quit school. I worked as an assistant for professional advertising photographers for few years, while improving my digital skills with manipulation and retouching. Then I returned to school. After my first contact with real world I took school more seriously and finished my degree quickly.<br />
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After school, I met a photographer whom I consider to be my real teacher. He led to my first international working experience in the 50th Venice Biennale. He is an independent photographer, an intellectual, an architect, an art historian and one of the most cruel critics I've met. He is still into chemical photography and working with obsolete techniques. When I was working for him as an assistant he always gave me briefs and explanations of what to achieve in our photographic compositions and what aims we had. He allowed me to try or discover varying solutions and methods by myself - it was very encouraging! He gave me a motto: "I don't have projects in life, I do things." I try to do. <br />
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Then for five years I've been an in-house photographer for a local, 25-year-old top advertising agency. I started there because of my retouching and digital manipulation past. (photomontage). Rarely do we see photographers in agencies, I was lucky to work within groups of copyrighters, art directors, graphic designers, and print technicians. There I had experiences of top projects for big brands in Turkey, thanks to the guidance of Hakkı Mısırlıoğlu- our Creative Director in that period.<br />
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Advertising agencies are not preferred places for you if art is your primary concern but usually employees there have the most common talents of artists. There you can see examples of individual competition or pulling together as a team. Sharp timing, socializing and financial criteria have essential importance whatever you want to do. It earns you different points of view but sometimes being too analytical can dull one's artistic creativity. After 5 years of my very safe adventure of being constantly employed, I became a freelance still life photographer again, and I still am now.<br />
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In 2007 I met James via my very old friend Özgür. They met at Cam Ocağı (a private glass studio with a furnace in istanbul). James said "Merhaba Cam üflüyorum" ("Hello, I blow glass") in Turkish. It's the first thing I knew about him and we became friends around the time FWP was beginning. I met his colleagues and students from the US in Istanbul. I noticed his constant efforts to establish connections between global citizens from different backgrounds, countries, and disciplines. He was so encouraging to people who had ideas for working and creating collaboratively, motivating people to get together. Every year he visited Istanbul, he made friends, he contacted people with portfolios- not only with glass and ceramic artists but also musicians, filmmakers, and sculptors. <br />
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One day I visited him when he was packing after a glass workshop at Mimar Sinan University, He asked me to take photographic documentation of works produced during the workshop, and I said Yes! As I was shooting the pieces, I asked questions about them. Every glass piece had its own story and technique, and I tried to emphasize the specialties of different works in my photography. At last I was so happy because they were so happy with results. So this was the beginning.<br />
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Later, when James was back in Istanbul from his Israel and Palestine trip he was smiling and excited. He was invited to Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts for Glass Blowing and also he had been to an extraordinary glass factory in Hebron in the West Bank and met great people there. He tried to work with their different techniques, then decided to come back soon and improve his way of glass blowing. He had many photos from the Hebron glass studio. At that time I was working as a camera man for a 58" music documentary for ARTE (German/French) television, so I asked him if FWP had plans for a documentary about what he is going to do in Hebron, and that's how the idea for "The Road to Hebron" was initiated. Then I was a part of FWP.<br />
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<b>BEZALEL AND HEBRON</b><br />
At the end of our first day in Bezalel Uni I felt really strange. I have always thought that I am a man of no prejudices and no fears of being discriminated against. I don't care about political disinformation. I like people smashing down borders and fears. But on the other hand, due to very delicate situations in the Middle East, I admit I didn't feel comfortable because of my nationality before I went there. Now I am proud of my decision to go. From the first moment on I was so welcomed by everyone I met. It was a shame for me but I just had those little fears.<br />
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When I was taking the footage in the glass department I tried to focus on the process of glass blowing and also the attention given by students, how they were instructed. I remembered my years of study with a fine arts faculty… the smell of the corridors between electric ovens, plaster mold facilities, students passing by with protective glasses and white stains on their clothes, carrying materials like drills, paints, etc., small exhibition openings. I tried to reflect their ambiance and what I felt. I also tried to help some students who wanted to take better photos of their recent works.<br />
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In Hebron it was completely different.<br />
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There these small glass factories have a different concept. Their production is for sale in piles. They are into traditional handcrafts. They are not students. They are not into contemporary art. Their taste in glass is so different. Their workflow is based on cost efficiency and speed, they burn wasted crude oil collected from car engines, they use recycled glass with a different consistency- their circumstances are so different.<br />
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Common things between Bezalel and Hebron were:<br />
Experienced glass blowers feeling even the smallest glass piece put in the kiln is like their baby.<br />
They are both in the same small region where glass blowing was born.<br />
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For the film, I took the journey of crude oil from cars to collecting cans and then to tanks' oil pumps, pipes, carburetors, and finally the furnace. After a while we start to see the rhythmic body movements of glass blowers in serial production of blown glass, followed by coffee and tea accompanied by Arabic music from an old radio. I can't say more than this before editing it properly but I think it gives the basic idea.<br />
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<b>PLANS FOR THE FILM</b><br />
It's going to be mainly an FWP production. That's my aim. Guys from the US and Turkey doing non-profit work in Palestine and Israel. It sounds good! It can be an interesting source for people who are interested in the different methods of blowing glass between two cities only 45 minutes from each other. My other wish is that it won't be boring for non-glass blowers!</span><br />
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See Tan's <a href="http://floatingworldprojects.blogspot.com/2011/01/artist-spotlight-tan-kurttekin.html" target="blank">Artist Spotlight</a>.<br />
Check out his <a href="http://www.tankurttekin.com/en/tankurttekin.html" target="blank">website</a>.<br />
</span></span></span>Floating World Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04658881214575160826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944959919967059045.post-63067302256536574482011-01-24T16:07:00.001-05:002011-01-24T16:07:21.978-05:00Artist Spotlight: Tan Kurttekin<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>This post is part of a series spotlighting the range of artists and musicians involved in Floating World Projects. </i><a href="http://floatingworldprojects.blogspot.com/search/label/artist%20spotlight">See all</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Born and raised in Istanbul, Tan Kurttekin graduated from Mimar Sinan University in 2002 with a degree in Fine Arts Photography. Since then he's worked as a freelance photographer in various advertising campaigns and publications for companies like Coca-Cola, Ulker, and Rolling Stone Turkey. In 2010 he was the director of photography for two films: <i>Arabesk- Gossensound und Massenpop</i>, a documentary about Turkish exploitation cinema in the 70's (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-gu1qjMV_w" target="blank">here's a clip</a>), and <i>Impression of a Castle</i>, a documentary focusing on Armenian-inspired architecture in Istanbul.</span><br />
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While very versatile in his style and approach to photography, his work is often characterized by deep color schemes and rich textures, with an eye for motion and symmetry. </span><br />
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This month Tan traveled with fellow FWP artists James, Oben, and Guido to <a href="http://floatingworldprojects.blogspot.com/2011/01/glass-workshop-at-bezalel-academy.html">Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design</a> in Jerusalem and the <a href="http://floatingworldprojects.blogspot.com/search/label/hebron">Al Salam glass factory</a> in Hebron to film a documentary on the glass community and traditions in the troubled region. They culled together many hours of footage- hopefully a trailer will be released within the next month. More information on the doc forthcoming!<br />
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Check out <a href="http://www.tankurttekin.com/index.html" target="blank">Tan's website</a> for more photos.<br />
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<div style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We have had a fascinating week here in the holy land after landing in Tel Aviv last Sunday. We spent the first half of the week at the <a href="http://www.bezalel.ac.il/en/" target="blank">Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design</a> working with students in the Glass Department. Israel is a small country and their glass community equally small. We spent three days working with students to share our knowledge of our craft and the results were visible immediately. We met with such an unbelievably warm and generous group that it was hard to move on when the workshop was finished. After a night of camping at the Dead Sea with some students, we were off to Hebron on Friday.<br />
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We have been here two days now and have had the chance to work at the <a href="http://www.alsalam-ceramic.com/" target="blank">Al Salam Ceramic</a> factory and have also had a chance to explore the old city of Hebron. I cannot impress enough the hospitality that we have found here. Whether it is an invitation for tea or just a passing story, the Hebronites are nothing but warm, hospitable, and generous with their time. Our filming has been going well but not without a brief interruption from the Israeli military yesterday afternoon: It seems that there was a military checkpoint in the background of a number of our photographs. It is hard to avoid that here. The day that we arrived (Friday) the city of Hebron made <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-%20east-12133918" target="blank">international news</a>.<br />
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Our director of photography, Tan Kurttekin has been doing a masterful job weaving together a story of glass in the Holy Land and we have discovered so much more than we could have ever expected. Often times with a project like this, the result can change drastically from one's original concept because of the logistics involved. So far, we have asked for so much and received everything more. Stay tuned!<br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hello and happy New Year's Day from Floating World Projects!</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As 2010 comes to a close I would like to personally thank everyone for your support and encouragement over the past year. Here in Istanbul the beautiful and crystal clear day highlights this cities majestic character and the streets are filling up as the Turks prepare for the night's festivities. I have the pleasure of visiting with many of the wonderful artists that are working with over the past few days and as usual, these moments serve as indelible reminders of the important need for organizations like FWP. On Sunday we are off to Jerusalem for a workshop at the Bezalel University and then the West Bank city of Hebron to conclude our documentary of Al-Salem glass factory. We hope that you stay tuned over the next week as we will be updating our blog daily.<br />
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We hope you all have a great 2011! Follow along this year as we release our documentary <i>The Road to Hebron</i>, produce major exhibitions in San Francisco and Boston, release new music, travel around the US with Turkish artists for residency programs, and more!<br />
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In January several members of Floating World Projects are traveling to Hebron to film a documentary about the Al-Salam glass factory. Sculptor and Executive Director of Public Glass in San Francisco Guido Gerlitz will be joining them as a representative of his gallery. With a BFA in Glass and Ceramics from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MFA in Glass from California College of the Arts, Guido works to "bring a leading edge perspective and understanding of the glass genre to contemporary art". He tests the limits of the material, evoking energetic and thoughtful abstract shapes as well as recognizable wares with splashes of color. <br />
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Since 2009 he's been the director of <a href="http://www.publicglass.org/" target="blank">Public Glass</a>, a non-profit institution specializing in education and professional glass studios including blown, cast, kiln, torch and cold-work. Next year a show of collaborative works from Floating World Projects will be exhibited in their gallery, in part as a fundraiser for "The Road to Hebron" documentary.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Gesture 1", 2004</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Teal Goblets", 2010</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Octonese", 2003</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Corkscrew"</td></tr>
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</div>Floating World Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04658881214575160826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944959919967059045.post-3611259953217634612010-12-16T10:00:00.000-05:002010-12-16T10:00:03.476-05:00Artist Spotlight: Dafna Kaffeman<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>This post is part of a series spotlighting the range of artists and musicians involved in Floating World Projects.</i> <a href="http://floatingworldprojects.blogspot.com/search/label/artist%20spotlight">See all</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"But I have come to detest life" (Embroidery by Yoav Weinberg), 2010</td></tr>
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Coming up in January, several members of Floating World Projects will travel to the West Bank to make a documentary focusing on the Al-Salam glass factory in Hebron. Before going into Palestine, they'll stay with artist Dafna Kaffeman, a lecturer and coordinator of Glass Studies at Bezalel University in Jerusalem. She studied glass art in Amsterdam and lampworking in Venice, often combining different materials with the glass medium and creating a more tactile effect.<br />
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Her works are incredibly close and detailed, taking advantage of the fragile nature of glass as a medium and working in assemblages of small pieces. Many of them take organic, seemingly soft shapes formed by hundreds of tiny hard parts.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rUx2aAoeHcw/TQmOOj2JsOI/AAAAAAAAALM/uDCjP0hEq8w/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-12-15+at+6.09.04+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="282" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rUx2aAoeHcw/TQmOOj2JsOI/AAAAAAAAALM/uDCjP0hEq8w/s400/Screen+shot+2010-12-15+at+6.09.04+PM.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Tactual Stimulation", 2007</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Animality", 2004</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Her 2006 exhibition <i>Persian Cyclamen</i> features a range of handkerchiefs embroidered with phrases in Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic and abstract geographic outlines. Intricately-crafted glass plant forms rest upon them, symbolizing larger concepts of life and placing the pieces in context of the Isreali-Palestine conflict. They were displayed lying down on low pedestals, creating a more intimate viewing.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Fence line in Red, Pinus halepensis", 2006</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Arabic is not spoken here. From the article by Jack Huri and David Renter, Haaretz, March 13, 2006. Sea Squill", 2006</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Persian Cyclamen", Lorch-Seidel Galeri, Berlin, Germany, 2006</td></tr>
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Her most recent series <a href="http://lorch-seidel.de/pressrelease/41/79" target="blank">Mantis Relgiose</a> takes a similar approach, incorporating texts from Israeli newspapers and letters this time embroidered by Norwegian woman and Israeli men. The former didn't understand Arabic or Hebrew, and so their embellishments are purely aesthetic, while the latter added accents as commentary. Dafna complements the handkerchiefs with glass plants and insects.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"And my family planned to ask for her hand" (Embroidery by Yair Shif), 2010</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"One day before I set out for the operation" (Embroidery by Michael Golan), 2010</td></tr>
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Some of her work is currently on view at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in the exhibition <a href="http://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/expositions/exposition_135.html" target="blank">Studio Glass</a>.<br />
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Dafna's <a href="http://www.dafnakaffeman.com/" target="blank">official site</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wheatonarts.org/creativeglasscenteramerica/criticresidency/robinrice/kaffemandafna" target="blank">Profile</a> at WheatonArts<br />
</span></div>Floating World Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04658881214575160826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944959919967059045.post-81583906120083096982010-12-10T16:08:00.001-05:002010-12-10T16:08:52.728-05:00Floating World Projects Newsletter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rUx2aAoeHcw/TQKVWWoUfoI/AAAAAAAAAKw/ja_y7i1zVTQ/fwpglass.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="257" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rUx2aAoeHcw/TQKVWWoUfoI/AAAAAAAAAKw/ja_y7i1zVTQ/fwpglass.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We've been working hard on the launch of our monthly newsletter, filled with news updates, artist profiles, delightful anecdotes, music updates, and general information regarding various happenings. If you'd like to sign up, there's a handy box to your right in our sidebar! Just type in your name and email address, and you'll receive a confirmation email with a link to add you to our list. Our newsletter will only go out about once a month, so I promise we won't flood your inbox! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Below is co-founder <a href="http://www.lonestudio.com/index.html" target="blank">James McLeod</a>'s 2010 reflection from the first issue we sent out last week:<br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hello and Happy Holidays from FWP!</span><br style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> As 2010 comes to a close we would like to take an opportunity to thank everyone that has helped us in all of our achievements in 2010. It has been an exciting year here at Floating World Projects with many new developments, none of which could have happened without the generous support of our collaborators, sponsors and friends in the international art community.</span><br style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Looking back to three years ago to the conception of FWP, I can recall how distant all of this seemed. The idea began with a simple conversation one evening in Istanbul overlooking the Bosporus straight. I was with my colleague Leo Tecosky and we had the idea to create an art project that could help share our perspective of a city and a community half way across the world with our communities back home. When we analyzed our concept, we quickly realized that it was far more complex than a just a story about a city or a community that we wanted to share; our conversation was about socially constructed prejudices that exist and what we can do to help dismantle them.</span><br style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Three years later we are still here and evidence of all of our hard work can be seen with our new web presence. In September 2010 we launched our </span><a href="http://floatingworldprojects.org/" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" target="blank">new website</a><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> with updated examples of all the multimedia projects we are currently working on. This is a huge step for us, compiling of all of the work that we have done over the past three years in one, easily accessible place. In addition, our new web content and social-networking manager, Alexandra Kittle, has outfitted us with this newsletter, a </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Floating-World-Projects/158548347517456" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" target="blank">facebook page</a><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, a blog and </span><a href="http://twitter.com/floatingworldpr" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" target="blank">twitter account</a><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> that are updated on a regular basis. Since we have been primarily self-funded in the past, we are also happy to announce that we now accept much needed </span><a href="http://www.floatingworldprojects.org/donate" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" target="blank">donations</a><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> on our website.</span><br style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Our events in 2010 began with a month long collaborative residency at the Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul for the month of June. Six artists from the USA and Turkey joined together to collaborate on glass artwork and the result was an overwhelming success. This residency was conceived of three years ago and was more productive than we ever could have expected. The next stop for FWP in July 2010 was a preliminary research trip to the West Bank to begin work on a new project; a documentary of one of the worlds’ oldest glass studios that is still operated by the same family since the 13th century.</span><br style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> In October 2010 upon return to the USA FWP incorporated as a non-profit organization and enlisted the help of our current staff Alex Kittle, Penny Saftler, and Sylvie Agudelo. We are currently preparing for our next trip to the West Bank in January 2011. In addition, we have two Exhibitions scheduled for May and September of next year and an additional residency at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in June. The residency will be the counterpart to our collaborative work last summer and will involve four Turkish artists visiting us for the first time in the USA.</span><br style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Please keep in touch and feel free to follow our activity as we have a busy year ahead. Thank you again for all of the support from our friends and sponsors and we wish you a safe and happy new year to come. </span> <br />
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